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The Muckrakers
This edition of Louis Filler's classic account carries the muckraking tradition through World War II, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, Korea, Vietnam, Ralph Nader, and Watergate.
Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume encompasses the human implications of slavery and its practices. It emphasizes the distinguished and disreputable elements on both sides of the slavery relationship, and in every part of the United States. Slavery offers peculiar challenges to the student of Amer...
Vanguards & Followers
Vanguards and Followers is the first thorough attempt to explore the long history of youth as a community in competition with adult society. Louis Filler examines the question: what is the tradition connecting Randolph Bourne with Abbie Hoffman, Adah Menken with Joan Baez, or Vachel Lindsay with Bob Dylan? He looks back to the fundamental social, economic, and cultural conditions that created opportunities for youthful expression. The first part of the book is an analysis of early dissident activities from the seventeenth century to World War II. He shows that youth movements were a part of American society almost from its beginnings. The second part of the book centers on the quarter century after the war. Filler examines the postwar climate that helped stimulate the youth eruption. Vanguards and Followers will appeal to a wide audience, including sociologists, cultural historians, and philosophers.
Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: Past and Present -- Great Expectations -- Vehicles for Change -- Liberal Syndrome: The Politics of Hope -- The People's Press -- "Common Scold"--William Lyon Mackenzie -- Moments of Truth: Progressivism and War -- Part II: Industry -- The Machine in the Garden -- Public Service and the Scapegoat -- Panaceas -- The Goo Goos -- Josephine Shaw Lowell -- Tom Watson and the Negroes -- Labor, Immigrants, and Reform -- Man of Action, Man of Words -- The Old Populism -- Part III: Progressivism -- Imperialism -- Theo -- The New Time -- The New Journalism -- Writer-Reformers -- Issues -- Romance and Reality -- Progressives -- Woodrow Wilson -- High Noon -- Consolidations -- Armageddon -- Shadows Forward -- Progress and Progressivism -- Bibliographical Note -- Index
The Crusade Against Slavery
Perhaps no other crusade in the history of the U.S. provoked so much passion and fury as the struggle over slavery. Many of the problems that were a part of that great debate are still with us. Louis Filler has brought together much information both known and new on those who organized to defeat slavery. He has also re-examined the anti-slavery movement's ideals, heroes, and martyrs with historical perspective and precision.Contrary to popular belief, the anti-slavery movement was far from united. It included abolitionists as well as a variety of reformers whose activities place them among the anti-slavery forces. These included men as different in background and temperament as William Lloyd...
